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The National Park Service celebrates African American Heritage throughout the year. Visit a multitude of park sites dedicated to African American history and culture. View Museum exhibits, go on a travel itinerary, or read indepth histories and interviews of famous African Americans and how they shaped the United States.

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When Rice Was King

Investigate early rice plantations in Georgetown, South Carolina, and the untold slave culture story.

A slave's journal with Lewis and Clark

We Shall Overcome

Visit the 49 places listed in the National Register for their association with the modern civil rights movement, as well as the Selma-to-Montgomery March route--a Department of Transportation designated "All-American Road" and a National Park Service designated National Historic Trail.